Aaron at Welcome to Nerdville has published a rant dismissing ColdFusion as rubbish, full of memory leaks, and states that ColdFusion "has the least consistent syntax of any language I’ve ever used".
Ray has an interesting post where he used CF8's new cfthread and cffeed tags to create an RSS aggregator. Slick. Towards the article's end, however, he says, "I'd love to see the same code written in PHP. No external libraries allowed - it must be all "baked in" code."
Which got me thinking. Do we really want everything "baked in" to ColdFusion?
Lynch Consulting has an interesting project going on: a centralized caching solution for ColdFusion servers using the open-source project memcached. It, along with the comments that follow the article, provide a good discussion of the pros and cons of using a centralized server in multi-server environments.
Reader Soja just posted two interesting links in response to the ColdFusion relevancy article that show ColdFusion job and search trends in relationship to PHP, Ruby, .NET, and JSP.
The previous article which asked "Is ColdFusion still relevant" generated some interesting replies and emails, including a thoughtful and well-reasoned comment by Adrock from Adobe's ColdFusion team regarding its future.
One part stands out, in which he says, "Personally, I'm seeing new ColdFusion developers/customers coming from two new places. Companies moving towards Flex/Apollo choose ColdFusion as the logical middle-ware and enterprise Java shops who are just now coming to terms that enterprise Java development isn't the best fit for departmental smaller applications."
This, to me, says that ColdFusion growth is being driven in more of a "top-down" fashion, dictated by management's decisions and choices, as opposed to the "bottom-up" grass-roots popularity more commonly associated with the open-source movement.
Over at Forta's site Ben discusses an article Andrew Binstock at InfoWorld has written on dynamic languages ... and which totally fails to mention our favorite language of choice.
Is it just an oversight? Or a warning of things to come?
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